This cybersecurity report highlights the increasing threat landscape in 2024, emphasizing rising attack volumes and evolving tactics by threat actors. It underscores the importance of proactive defense strategies, including key industry statistics and emerging attack techniques. #LockBit #MOVEitVulnerability
Keypoints
- Major cybersecurity vendors typically publish annual threat reports structured into sections such as introduction, threat landscape overview, detailed analyses of malware, ransomware, intrusions, encrypted threats, cryptojacking, and actionable security recommendations.
- These reports present key statistics like attack volume changes—malware attacks increased by 11%, encrypted threats soared by 117%, and cryptojacking surged by 659% in 2024—along with regional and industry-specific trends.
- Notable findings include the rise of novel attack vectors like weaponized Microsoft OneNote files, widespread use of malicious PDFs with QR codes, and exploitation of vulnerabilities such as CVE-2023-51467 affecting Apache OFBiz and CVE-2023-38831 in WinRAR.
- Attack techniques are continuously evolving, with threat actors leveraging AI for spear-phishing and Business Email Compromise, while utilizing encrypted traffic protocols to hide malicious activities.
- Recurring themes highlight the persistent increase in intrusion attempts (up 20%), the prominence of ransomware groups like LockBit, which remains highly active despite arrests, and the growing environmental and operational impacts of cryptojacking. These insights reflect the need for comprehensive, proactive cybersecurity measures across all sectors.
Source: Awesome Annual Security Reports - The reports in this collection are limited to content which does not require a paid subscription, membership, or service contract. (https://github.com/jacobdjwilson/awesome-annual-security-reports/)